True
Definition: In accordance with fact or reality. Truly. Bring (an object, wheel, or other construction) into the exact shape or position required.
Number of Quotes: 35
I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
Douglas Adams
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Franklin P. Adams
Too much truth is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so
difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
Henry Adams
Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say it has been discovered before. Lastly, they say they have always believed it.
Louis Agassiz
As a general rule, if you want to get at the truth - hear both sides and believe neither.
Josh Billings
A triviality is a statement whose opposite is false. However, a great truth is a statement whose opposite may well be another great truth.
Niels Bohr
Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Elizabeth Bowen
Whereas logic is the art of demonstrating truth, eloquence is the gift of winning over people's
hearts and minds so that you may inspire them and persuade them in whatever way you choose.
Jean de La Bruyère
Of one thing be certain: if a CEO is enthused about a particularly foolish acquisition, both his internal staff and his outside
advisors will come up with whatever projections are needed to justify his stance. Only in fairy tales are emperors told that they are naked.
Warren Buffett
It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler (Author)
'Tis strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction.
George Byron
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Khalil Gibran
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer
Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their
concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth.
Baltasar Gracián
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Lillian Hellman
Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,
Joseph exclaimed.
If only there were a dogma to believe in.
Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way
and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and
can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any truth? Is there no real and valid doctrine?
The master had never heard him speak so fervently. He walked on in silence for a little, then said:
There is truth, my
boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long
for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas
and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Be prepared for conflicts, Joseph Knecht - I can see that they already have begun.
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
Mistakes are, after all, the foundation of truth, and if a man does not know what
a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nicos Kazantzakis
Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats
He was the consummate politician. He didn't lie, neither did he tell the truth.
John Lundberg
I drink a glass of water and half a lemon as soon as I wake up. I heard that it's supposed to
balance your body's pH. Not sure if that's true, but to be honest, it really helps with bloating.
Sonoya Mizuno
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an
ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Ivan Panin
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
Jean Rostand
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk
until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than
mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
The Wise Man's Fear
Patrick Rothfuss
To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.
Bertrand Russell
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
One can't say that figures lie. But figures, as used in financial arguments, seem to have the bad habit of
expressing a small part of the truth forcibly, and neglecting the other part, as do some people we know.
Fred Schwed
Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if
they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai Stevenson
I don't mind what the opposition say of me, so long as they don't tell the truth about me; but
when they descend to telling the truth about me, I consider that is taking an unfair advantage.
Mark Twain
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
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